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Widemans fascinating new novel weaves together fiction, biography, and memoirto evoke the life and message of Frantz Fanon, the influential... more
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The first story collection in more than a decade from one of the most celebrated African-American authors of modern-day literature... more
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The long anticipated autobiography of the late Stokely Carmichael chronicles the legendary civil rights leader's work as the charismatic patriarch... more
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From "one of America's premier writers of fiction" (New York Times) comes this novel inspired by the 1985 police bombing... more
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A haunting portrait of lives arriving at different destinies, Brothers and Keepers is John Edgar Wideman's seminal memoir about two... more
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Over the post twenty years, judges such as Robert Penn Warren, Raymond Carver, Joyce Carol Oates, Margaret Atwood, Russell Banks,... more
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In this compelling travel memoir, the celebrated novelist explores Martinique's seductive natural beauty and culture, as well as its vexed... more
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A multilayered memoir of basketball, family, home, love, and race, John Edgar Wideman"s Hoop Roots brings "a touch of Proust... more
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Weaving a vibrant tapestry of the rural South, this extensive volume of African-American folklore was collected in the late 1920s... more
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Sports have long served as inspiration for poetry -- the ancient Greeks wrote odes in praise of their athletes --... more
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Constructed from memory and imagination, Blues Narratives' portraits of the poet's mother and grandfather burst into language and song, shaped... more
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Continuing John Edgar Wideman's acclaimed Homewood Trilogy, this collection of interrelated stories spans the history of the Pittsburgh community founded... more
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Mother Bess was a crazy, mean old lady hiding from the world in a shack. Tommy was on the run... more
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This book spans thirty-five years. Wideman discusses a wide variety of topics - from post-modernism to genocide, from fatherhood to... more
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Wideman's most acclaimed novel, winner of the prestigious P.E.N. The author has been the subject of major profiles in the... more
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Once a prominent radio reporter, Mumia Abu-Jamal is now in a Pennsylvania prison awaiting his state-sactioned execution. In 1982 he... more
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With resonant artistry and unflagging directness, Wideman examines the tragedy of race and the gulf it cleaves between black fathers... more
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The University of Pittsburgh Press is proud to publish for the first time in a single hardback edition John Edgar... more
John Edgar Wideman won the PEN/Faulkner Award in 1984 for Sent for You Yesterday and in 1990 for Philadelphia Fire. His second memoir, Fatheralong, was a finalist for the National Book Award. His most recent books are Hoop Roots and The Island: Martinique. He teaches at Brown University....